The Legion invasions (and early access) arrived August 9, 2016 (US) and August 10, 2016 (EU). They will continue until August 30, 2016 when Legion launches, and will progressively become more frequent until that point.

Invasion Weapons

Below is a complete list of the invasion-exclusive weapons that can be found in the Cofre grande de la Legión. Some of them have very unique models! Also listed in the chart is which loot specializations these weapons will drop for.

Note that aside from Fragmento del vacíos, the invasions grant achievements, and also the Stage 2 and Stage 4 chests can have unique weapons in them (that can be upgraded to item level 725).

The items available for Fragmento del vacíos include transmog sets and item level 700 necks, rings, trinkets, weapon upgrade items, and a pet! These items are sold by , who can be found in the Illidari camps in all invasion zones, as well as Orgrimmar and Ciudad de Ventormenta as below:

There will be 6 different invasion events during the pre-launch patch. After the invasions start, they will become more and more frequent as we get closer to the launch of the expansion (August 30, 2016). Each invasion is a scenario entered by anyone that moves into the invasion area, and has 4 stages. There is a progress bar for Stages 1 and 3 which is zone-wide - you will see how close you are to the next stage. Stage 2 and 4 have boss objectives, and completing these will complete the stage.Note that the invasion instance you enter may already be in progress, with potentially a stage or stages completed already.The stages are below:

Stage 1 - Defend against a general invasion point (e.g. Orgrimmar Rear Gate). Mobs are fairly trivial in nature, although numerous.

Stage 2 - Defeat two lieutenants and a commander. The commander spawns after the lieutenants are killed. These bosses hit pretty hard, so DPS and healers have to watch threat.

Stage 3 - Defeat the invading forces marked on the map - a zone-wide objective, with various activities that will advance the progress bar:

There are mobs to kill, of various sizes and strengths. These can be found at invasion points, marked on the map.

There are protected "Legion Structures" also marked on the map. You must kill the mobs protecting the structures; doing so will make the s attackable. When the crystals are destroyed, the structure collapses.

There are various mini bosses scattered around the zone during this phase. These hit pretty hard, so ideally they need to be tanked or kited. These mini bosses often drop Fragmento del vacíos, so it's worthwhile helping to kill them! They are marked on the map with skulls.

Stage 4 - Defeat a boss NPC at the original invasion point (requires a group). These bosses hit VERY hard and have some abilities that will kill you if you do not avoid them (e.g. breath mechanics - make sure to stand behind the boss!)

Some other miscellaneous notes:

Zones that have active invasions are marked very clearly on the world map. Note that only zones in Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms are involved.

Mousing over the invasion icon will show you a timer, indicating how much time is left in the invasion, so that you can get there.

Entering a zone with an active invasion will put you into a scenario instance. There will be multiple instances going on at one time, so arriving at any point while the invasion is active will allow you to participate.There are various vehicles you can use to assist you during the invasion (e.g. Demolishers, Glaives). These usually have a few abilities that will do area damage to mobs.Most of the mobs killed for the invasions do not drop anything, although minibosses do. The shards/chests that are rewarded go into your bags automatically (even if you are dead when the appropriate stage is completed).

Stage 3 - 10 Fragmento del vacío at the end of the stage. Additionally, mini-bosses during this stage drop Fragmento del vacíos (reportedly 5-15). Therefore, killing these can net you a much higher yield than any other stage!

*This armor is the same armor that makes up the 4 transmog armor ensembles available for 200 Fragmento del vacío. If you are wanting only the transmog appearances and not the gear, collecting it piece-by-piece from these chests will be presumably much slower than buying the Ensemble.This armor has a chance to be Warforged - this can boost it to item level 705, 710, 715, or 720.

**These weapons can be upgraded to iLevel 725 in increments of 5 item levels at a time using , which will also be available during the pre-launch event

Completing a single invasion rewards the achievement .Completing 6 of the invasions (as listed below) will reward

The above achievements will be Feats of Strength (similar to Saboteando las fallas from the Cataclysm pre-expansion event) that will not be obtainable after Legion launches.

Another Feat of Strength that will be exclusively available during the Legion pre-launch event is (collect all 12 of the pamphlets from Doomsayer NPCs in Orgrimmar/Stormwind).

Getting to the Invasions

Below is a summary of ways to get to the invasions. I have included many different routes, including some that may be obvious (for those who may be returning to the game after a while).

Comentario de Malgrain

Question. Does it only drop based on your class/spec, or anything in general? Do I HAVE to be on a specific class to get all of the weapons for transmog purposes?

Comentario de Quietriot2

Got the one handed mace from this chest.

Comentario de vinneo

Just a tip for those of you leveling from invasions. Hold onto your chests and open them at level cap. The loot's item levels are equivalent to when they are opened, not when they are received.

Comentario de Maxion

The primary drop from the small chest is bracers, gloves, belt and boots, while the large chest has the primary drop of helm, shoulders, chest and leggings. This is not counting/considering any extra drops they can give in addition to the first item.

Comentario de Aaahead

NOTE: Experience gains were heavily nerfed 8/16/2016. In the same hotfix, the number of simultaneous invasions was increased from 2 to 3, and they spawn/last 2 hours instead of 4 hours. Where you used to be able to gain 0.5 to 4 levels per invasion with heirloom gear, now it's more like 0.1 to 0.5 levels per invasion. Experience points for killing mobs during invasions increased, but not significantly.

If you're collecting chests mainly for transmog gear, you can level up lower level characters in invasions, rather than farming them with max level characters.

Level 10 to level 99 characters can gain substantial experience points by participating (even just standing) in zones with invasions, and the mobs in the invasions scale to your character's level so that even a level 10 character can contribute to the fight. The rate of leveling per 15-minute invasion is greater for level 10 characters than level 99 characters. If a character is wearing a basic set of heirloom gear (head, shoulders, cloak, chest, pants, ring) for 50% bonus xp, they can gain roughly:

Level 10

4 levels per invasion

Level 40

2 levels per invasion

Level 65

1 level per invasion

Level 90

0.5 levels per invasion

An August 16, 2016 hotfix reduced gains to around 0.1 to 0.5 levels per invasion.

Characters can repeat the invasions each time they reset, including invasions they've done before. Both Alliance and Horde characters (level 10+) can participate in any invasion.

As of August 16, 2016, three invasions spawn every 2 hours, and last 2 hours, and invasions are supposed to increase in frequency as Legion's release nears. There are six possible zones where invasions can spawn: on the Eastern Kingdoms continent in Páramos de Poniente, Laderas de Trabalomas or Dun Morogh, or on the western continent of Kalimdor in Tanaris, Los Baldíos del Norte or Azshara. Both Hillsbrad Foothills and Azshara have no flight points for either faction.

When you arrive at an invasion, you usually enter during stage 1, but sometimes you will enter a partially completed invasion on stages 2 to 4, and since you gain experience points (xp) after each stage, this results in overall lower xp gain. Sometimes leaving and re-entering the zone puts you in a different instance with an earlier stage, but usually not. Joining a party with someone else in the same zone may change the instance you're in.

The first stage awards less xp than the fourth stage. The share of an invasion's total xp awarded for the four stages, if you stay the same level, is 13.33%, 26.67%, 20%, and 40%. The Cofre pequeño de la Legión is awarded for stage 2, and the Cofre grande de la Legión is awarded for stage 4.

Characters can gain 300% more experience using Elixir de mente rápida or Elixir de conocimiento antiguo. The median auction price on US realms for the Elixir de mente rápida is currently around 8000g. Wait until you are in an invasion, at stage 1, shortly before stage 1 is completed before using an elixir. This will avoid wasting some of the elixir from joining a partially-completed invasion. Invasions last 15 minutes, the same duration as Elixir de mente rápida, but with the one hour Elixir de conocimiento antiguo, if you start your first invasion 35-40 minutes before the invasions end, you could conceivably get three full invasions in, depending on your travel time between them.

You will accumulate Fragmento del vacío currency from chests and killing minibosses. If you run out of other uses for them, consider spending extras on Cría de murciélago vil pets to sell, either now, or when the price may go up after Legion launches and the invasions end.

Important: Consider waiting until you're done leveling with invasions before opening your Cofre pequeño de la Legións and Cofre grande de la Legións, since the gear will be tuned for your level at the time you open the chests. As noted elsewhere, unlike heirloom gear, these items will not scale up as you continue to level. If you wait until you're level 100 to open these, the gear will be item level 700, or occasionally warforged to be 710 or 720.

Comentario de Quietriot2

As of today can now dropped warforged armor pieces. +10 ilvl

Comentario de xoneka

There are a few more ways to get to the invasions.To westfall you can use the portal to dalaran above karazhan and fly.If you are an old raider you might use Atiesh, gran báculo del Guardián or any equivalent from other class to teleport to Karazhan and fly.To westfall and Dun Morogh you can also use Control remoto de Cerveza Temible, leave the instance and fly from Blackrock mountain.

Comentario de siindy

Im not 100% sure about this but far as I have done my testing with 18 of each chest.

Comentario de Eleidess

Comentario de mazuno

is it possible to have a warforged weapon ? to know if i need to keep doing invasions...

Comentario de paperbanjo

I leveled my mage from 91 to 100 solely with invasions and the pre-patch quest-line. I saved all the boxes from the invasions (40 of each) and figured I would share the data for anybody who might be interested. This was all done after Warforged items were made available.

You can hover over the numbers listed under the Warforged column to see data about the item levels.

Comentario de josealemida

Comentario de paperbanjo

I have posted data previously and decided to share more data from another character leveled with invasions (early-mid 80s, forget what level exactly, to 100). There were many more chests opened prior to level 100 (needed to replace very old gear so I could participate) and I did not bother saving that data. This was all done after Warforged items were made available.

You can hover over the numbers listed under the Warforged column to see data about the item levels.

I am going to post the information from both small (46 total) and large (44 total) chests.

Side note: It is worth noting that while weapons sub-100 can be Warforged, and unless it's a display issue, they appear to have the same stats as a non-Warforged weapon. I also ended up with around 1600 Nethershards total after opening the chests.. more than enough to buy all the weapon upgrades (even if I had started with 0) and rings/necklaces/trinket/cloak. Finally, as with my first set of data I posted, I didn't receive a single 720 item from any large chest.. any 720 items were obtained from small chests.

edit: I noticed a line in the 08/24/2016 hotfix notes.. not sure if this fixes the issue I mentioned about about Warforged items sub-100.

Fixed a bug that was preventing some lower-level event reward armor from gaining item level upgrades when Warforged.

Comentario de Esploratore

I have a question: what if you hold into the chests until 110, will gear be scaled to 110 or does it have a 100 limit? Where does it say that if so?